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...account I gave [last year]," began Butler, "was, inevitably, a bleak one . . . The difference today is very striking." Britain's balance of payments had been converted from a 1951 deficit of ?398 million to a 1952 surplus of ?291 million. Gold and dollar reserves at the end of March had climbed to ?774 million (a great improvement, but still only about a quarter of what Britain should have as leader and banker of the sterling area). Now came a reward: H.M.'s government was about to add two ounces a week to the Briton's sugar ration...
...shot has been fired. In bleak, besieged Buraimi, Turki still holds out; he has 800 bags of rice, enough for many meals. Around him circle a busy band of British. Happiest of all are the local sheiks. They figure that all this excitement means oil. One of them has already decided how to spend his first oil royalty check-on a fancy new airplane...
...child, Richard ("Angel") Williams found life in Philadelphia a bleak affair. Angel's father deserted his family when the boy was a baby. His mother developed tuberculosis. The boy was shipped from one institution to another, and after stealing a car, ended up in the reformatory. When Angel was turned loose last year, at 17, he energetically set out to make a name for himself...
...there any foundation for belief in the spontaneous combustion of chronic alcoholics?" a correspondent asked the British Medical Journal. No, said the editor, Charles Dickens' case (Mr. Krook in Bleak House) notwithstanding. "There is no scientific foundation for the theory that hell fire is anticipated ... in chronic alcoholics...
Marching north over the bleak, desolate, road to Munsan that night, in the true spirit of independence, but with no designs of conquest, was the widow Ahn Nam-chang and her little family. It was the first full moon of the lunar new year and, in accordance with age-old custom, peasant folk were cracking open the hard little Korean walnuts to foretell the future. No matter that Korea lay devastated by war, there was still a future. If the kernels came out whole, that was a good omen. On the other hand, if they came out broken, that...